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Robson Sharuko
Metros Editor
IN a way, it was like a throwback to March 2004.
The shock and grief as we mourned the death of Blessing Makunike, Shingi Arlon and Gary Mashoko at Raylton Sports Club.
The trio, together with two CAPS United fans, died in a road accident while on their way home from a league match in Bulawayo.
The City of Kings was the destination for the Bosso leaders, and a fan, when they were killed in a car crash on Thursday, on their way home from a league match.
Yesterday, the local football community gathered at Barbourfields to say goodbye to the Highlanders leaders and the club’s fan.
It was like a throwback to March 13, 2004.
The Green Machine were on their way home after an assignment in Bulawayo, the beginning of a journey which, at the end of the season, would see them being crowned champions for the first time in eight years.
‘’Yogo had just returned from Yugoslavia and wasn’t even involved in pre-season,” Cephas Chimedza noted.
“He had that aura of a big star but never acted like one. He wasn’t our captain but you could see he was a leader.” And, just like yesterday in Bulawayo, the football family united in Harare to grieve for the CAPS sons lost in that crash.
Mathew Masinge